Premier [2]: It would seem appropriate to bring Li Zaihan, the military district commander,
some revolutionary cadres from the provincial committee, and a number of reliable leaders
of the mass revolutionary rebel faction, a total of about a dozen people, to Beijing for study
and policy, and then have them return to implement it. Please discuss this with the Cultural
Revolution Group.
Mao Zedong,
January 21.
It would seem appropriate to do the same with each province and city, resolving the issue
one by one.

[1] This comment was written on a telegram dated January 20, 1967, from Li Zaihan, Deputy
Political Commissar of the Guizhou Provincial Military Region of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army, to the General Political Department and the Cultural Revolution Group of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The telegram addressed several
issues concerning a certain rebel leader in Guizhou and his headquarters, and requested
that dictatorship be exercised against them.
[2] Premier refers to Zhou Enlai.